I'm wanting to gain access to my NAS over the internet. I have always used a VPN Server, never been an issue and works great!
Now however, my college IT Guys have decided that they are going to use ...

As far as TCP/IP names are concerned, I can always assign more than one hostname to the same IP. It works great, if I use this trick at the client machine, i.e. not "the server with 2 hostnames".
But ...

On a SMB share mounted on OSX, I do 'ls ../M*' and see nothing the first time,
then something the second.
I don't see this with a linux client, so hopefully it's an OSX mount option?
If so, where do ...

I have a Windows 7 vm running in VMWare workstation, it has 4 cores and 4 GBs of RAM assigned. Currently 3 clients connect to this windows 7 vm to access a shared folder. I noticed when the clients ...

We have a PC running Windows7 Enterprise. The PC can access the Internet and communicates with other workstations (i.e: I can RDP connect to it), but it cannot access any file shares.
I tracked down ...

I'am trying to watch a movie in VLC. The movie is in a local SMB share via wireless and I'm using a Mac 10.10.
When I start the movie, it starts downloading at 7MB/s for a few seconds (which is good) ...

We need a server at work just to set up an SMB shared folder and to run just one application, what would be the difference between buying a server that runs Windows Server 2008 and building a custom ...

There is this directoy inside a shared resource that's accessible to everyone and I have to secure it so only one user can have access to it, so I proceeded to create their account and then set the ...

I'm wondering if moving or copying files between directories that belong to the same SMB server involves the files moving over the network from the original directory to my pc, and then again from my ...

Let's say I mount remote ftp server folder to a local folder using fuse. Then I setup samba and create a share pointing to local ftp folder. Can I place a VHD image on that share and then mount it in ...

The scanning functionality on my MP171 is not working over my network.
All the necessary configurations have been made using the web interface, but it cannot authenticate. It throws several different ...

This is a situation where the PC connects to Samba Server (SMB) automatically. I first realized this was happening on a Windows 8.1 laptop, which is a refurbished HP Pavilion g7 from HP. When booting ...

If you have a (linux) server, is it possible to share certain files and folders using more than one protocol?
For example, sharing a file over SMB and NFS.
If it is possible, is this recommended?
Or ...

I have a Windows (7) machine A connected by 802.11n to a router, and from there via Ethernet 100Mbps to a Linux machine B running SMB and SSH services. I'm copying a large file from B to A, using the ...

Ubuntu server 14.04
My head is full of networking stuff right now and I just can't get my head around samba. I need a share that allows read and write access to authenticated users only, with no home ...

I think I've tried two file managers so far on my Galaxy Note 2, ASTRO and ES. Both have the LAN share function. They both do work eventually, but accessing those shared drives on my Windows machines ...

for a few weeks now, I no longer can upload files to my Samba server. I didn't changed the configuration nor update Samba for it to happens. I had Samba 4.1.5 when it happened, so I tried to update to ...

How it is different to use an iSCSI-connected disk than for example an SMB file share?
Also what kind of use an iSCSI-connected disk is good for and what are the examples in which situations an SMB ...

I created a simple FUSE filesystem -- read-only, and the only thing it really does to files (a bunch of audio files) is changing their names. The filesystem is hosted on a Linux server, where it works ...